Need for action ‘clear’ on the climate

Vicki Mclaughlin |Sunday, October 21, 2018

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On what basis they make this claim is a mystery, but the point stands: the majority of this sample of Americans do not think humans have anything to do with climate change, or that the climate is not changing at all.

The first event should serve as a wake-up call for the worldwide community.

While some Democrats favor bold moves to address climate change, others - perhaps still shell-shocked by the failure of their 2009 cap-and-trade bill under Obama - shy away from anything more than incremental measures, citing the "hostile" political environment in Congress. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) said Democrats should "focus on the practical and the opportunistic" in the short term while working toward big-picture "aspirational goals" in the long term.

The reporthighlights that a failure to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels will only further exacerbate these severe weather events. The areas burned each year by wildfires would double in the Mediterranean and increase six-fold in the U.S. The sea-level rise would swallow cities such as Osaka, Japan; Alexandria, Egypt; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Shanghai, China.

Heat: Rising average temperatures have a clear connection to how often heat waves happen, and how bad they get when they do. Clearly, when policymakers revise their countries' NDCs, they must raise them significantly. The melting Arctic ice sheet could release diseases and pathogens that it has locked up for decades or even centuries, from the 1918 Spanish flu to the bubonic plague.

These developments will have far-reaching implications for water supplies and the health and living standards of the global population.

"We need to actually engage more Indigenous communities and First Nations (so) they can export that energy to other places, sell to larger communities outside and have a revenue-generating renewable energy".

Increasingly, professional accountants will be involved in assessment and pursuit of SDG-related opportunities, understanding the wider context of operating in more complex markets, where sustainable development issues lie at the heart of value creation.

"I'm not denying climate change", he said in the interview. We have effectively wasted the past 30 years, since the climate change threat first became known, and there is now very little time left. The implication is that they must be incurred slowly. By definition, their welfare is being discounted. To sustain a future quality of life for our posterity we must take aggressive action now.

Therefore, the appropriate social rate of discount should be equal to the rate of technological change, which is much lower than market interest rates. This will cause those individuals that are already struggling to afford food to have an even greater struggle in the future.

A much better approach has been developed by Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics. Nelson has linked the hurricane directly to climate change.

"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make USA manufacturing non-competitive".

Two independent, detailed epidemiological studies, using different methodologies - one led by researchers at Harvard University and the other by researchers at George Washington University - have estimated that thousands died in the aftermath of Maria. In fact, some proponents of climate action are calling for nothing less than the dismantling of the free enterprise system responsible for human flourishing across the globe. Indeed, what are Mumbai's goals to reduce emissions?

US Senator Jeff Merkley likewise reacted on Trump's statement: "Trump saying he has a natural instinct for science is like Hulk Hogan saying he has a natural instinct for ballet". It has weakened the resolve to fulfill the commitments solemnly agreed upon in Paris. By contrast, his challenger, the state's current governor, Republican Rick Scott, banned the use of the words "climate change" by state officials.

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